May 2009
73 posts
Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace
NYT:
The Pentagon plans to create a new military command for cyberspace, administration officials said Thursday, stepping up preparations by the armed forces to conduct both offensive and defensive computer warfare.
The military command would complement a civilian effort to be announced by President Obama on Friday that would overhaul the way the United States safeguards its computer...
WatchMontage of select works by Rob Chiu // the.ronin.
Fabulous.
Merlin jumps the shark.
MPR: Living in a digital space
/**/ John Moe talking to Paul Saffo and [Merlin Mann] from ~02:45 to ~25:00
The wave of digitization is coming as compact discs are tossed out in exchange for iPods, and the Kindle promises to make books obsolete. Midmorning asks what is the role of hard media in our lives, and what will we lose by moving from analog to digital format in our living spaces?
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WatchWee See is a minimalist introduction to our video and aural world designed by Rolyn Barthelman and scored by Tim DeLaughter.
Part art installation, part pacifier, Wee See is a collection of black-and-white animations built from basic shapes to delight both child and parent. As vision develops slowly over the first months of life, Wee See provides surfaces of bold, well-defined artwork to...
“I don’t think that I have done anything more important in my life.
We’re...”
– Kent Nerburn, on working as a cabbie, picking up a fare at 2:30 AM.
Always be prepared for that moment.
Man in ape costume tries to steal banana displays
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Fond du Lac police continue a fruitless search for a man wearing an ape costume who has attempted to steal foam banana displays from inside local gas stations.
HAAHAHAHAAHAhahaha…whoo!
Capt. Steve Klein says Thursday someone donning an ape costume entered two gas stations Wednesday trying to steal the displays and police have received several calls...
Internet Addiction Disorder @ Wikipedia →
{lilykily}
Internet addiction disorder (IAD), or more broadly Internet overuse, problematic computer use or pathological computer use is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life.
I think I have this.
Guilty.
I don’t get it. I don’t think I have this.
Now, if you switched “interferes with” for “gives meaning to”, then I...
For your revolutionary Thursday.
I don't mean to be a dick but...
jonathaneunice:
inthefade: I hate, hate, hate when photographs are reblogged without attribution. I don’t mean those funny, photoshopped images that have been passed around the internet 700 times. I mean photographs. Someone’s art. … That’s like quoting someone but not giving credit for the quote. It’s lazy.
Agreed. I try to replicate all links in photo posts I reblog, showing a chain...
“When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– I have no idea who said this.
Dear Minnesota Governor, Senators and...
You’re all fired. Thanks for your politically-motivated, partisan efforts to play your personal agenda, but we’re not interested. Instead of completing the one single thing you’re supposed to accomplish — pass a balanced budget — you thought a last-minute, five-to-midnight majority vote would do. Total and epic failure by each and every one of you. I will not vote for...
l'etoile has your Art-a-Whirl all laid out →
WatchMore Hans Rosling at this year’s TED conference. This time, with some more positive light shed on the HIV & AIDS pandemic of the past quarter-century.
WatchI’m glad he shaved the beard. He was a little grizzly for awhile there. Kinda miss the `stache, though.
Of course, the choice quote here:
[Water-boarding] is torture … It’s drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good … you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I’ll have him confess to the Sharon Tate...
WatchI’m a sucka and missed Kim ‘n Kelley last time through Minneapolis. /sob.
Last time I saw these lovely ladies, I was given free beer by their opening band. This band was very odd—the lead had this sort of fish-gulp thing going on. The free beer was shitty (but free). I got to hold Kim’s coffee and help her up on the stage when they went on, though, which was neat. Oh, you...